In today's digital landscape, where websites and applications are expected to handle increasing traffic loads, ensuring optimal performance and reliability is of paramount importance. Load balancing, a technique used to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple servers, plays a critical role in achieving these goals. Load balancers which are the key components in this process, help optimize resource utilization, enhance the scalability functions, and improve overall system efficiency.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that supplies APIs, SDKs, and tools for the instrumentation of applications and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to OTel, we are excited to announce support for the ingestion and visualization of runtime metrics from OTel-instrumented applications in Java, .NET, and Go.
The public cloud market is expected to grow significantly in 2023, and it’s no surprise. Gartner forecasts that end-user spending on public cloud services will rise by 21.7% to a total of $597.3 billion in 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022!
When relying on data from external services, it's important for the retrieval to be accurate and timely. While we may not control how efficiently an external API responds to our requests, we can control how and when we request data from that API. However, over time as your application and the API that serves it change, once efficient requests may turn into bottlenecks.
ROI is a standard business metric calculated by comparing the benefits (or returns) of an investment to the cost of the investment. The higher the ROI, the greater the benefit compared to the cost. But in the case of DCIM software, it’s important to understand that returns aren’t always direct financial gains. They can also include benefits like improved system reliability, greater operational efficiency, and a smaller environmental footprint.
The Elastic APM Java Agent automatically tracks many metrics, including those that are generated through Micrometer or the OpenTelemetry Metrics API. So if your application (or the libraries it includes) already exposes metrics from one of those APIs, installing the Elastic APM Java Agent is the only step required to capture them. You'll be able to visualize and configure thresholds, alerts, and anomaly detection — and anything else you want to use them for!
